[h=1]18 men arrested for suspected sex in Manhattan Beach restroom[/h]Police have arrested 18 men suspected of engaging in sexual activity inside a Manhattan Beach restroom that became a popular meeting spot in recent weeks, officers said Tuesday.
The crackdown possibly put an end to lewd conduct inside the Marine Avenue restroom at the beach, where lifeguards noticed men going inside and staying for extended periods of time.
Among those arrested was the director of security for a major media company.
"It just started up probably the last week in February," Manhattan Beach police Officer Stephanie Martin said. "(Lifeguards) started noticing some questionable conduct."
Men sometimes stayed in the restroom for longer than an hour, and the same people would return. Lifeguards also found graffiti of graphic sexual images on restroom walls, and holes drilled through stall partitions, Martin said.
Lifeguards told police that instead of seeing one pair of feet in a stall, "sometimes they would see two or three."
"MBPD learned the public restroom was being used as a meeting place for sexual activity," Martin said. "Undercover detectives conducted a visual inspection of the restroom and set up surveillance of the location. Within minutes of their arrival, they made their first arrest."
Police checked Internet sites and chat rooms, where they found discussions indicating the restroom had become a meeting spot for men to engage in sex, Martin said.
Officers soon conducted six undercover operations, posing as men seeking activity. Police made 17 more arrests.
The suspects were held on suspicion of offenses such as soliciting or engaging in lewd conduct in a public place, loitering in and around a public toilet for the purpose of engaging or soliciting a lewd or unlawful act, utilizing a restroom peephole, invasion of privacy, resisting arrest and indecent exposure.
Police released their booking mugs and names to the media.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_20316...ex-manhattan-beach-restroom?source=rss_viewed
:lol:
I love my hometown paper, they list the shit other papers won't.
The crackdown possibly put an end to lewd conduct inside the Marine Avenue restroom at the beach, where lifeguards noticed men going inside and staying for extended periods of time.
Among those arrested was the director of security for a major media company.
"It just started up probably the last week in February," Manhattan Beach police Officer Stephanie Martin said. "(Lifeguards) started noticing some questionable conduct."
Men sometimes stayed in the restroom for longer than an hour, and the same people would return. Lifeguards also found graffiti of graphic sexual images on restroom walls, and holes drilled through stall partitions, Martin said.
Lifeguards told police that instead of seeing one pair of feet in a stall, "sometimes they would see two or three."
"MBPD learned the public restroom was being used as a meeting place for sexual activity," Martin said. "Undercover detectives conducted a visual inspection of the restroom and set up surveillance of the location. Within minutes of their arrival, they made their first arrest."
Police checked Internet sites and chat rooms, where they found discussions indicating the restroom had become a meeting spot for men to engage in sex, Martin said.
Officers soon conducted six undercover operations, posing as men seeking activity. Police made 17 more arrests.
The suspects were held on suspicion of offenses such as soliciting or engaging in lewd conduct in a public place, loitering in and around a public toilet for the purpose of engaging or soliciting a lewd or unlawful act, utilizing a restroom peephole, invasion of privacy, resisting arrest and indecent exposure.
Police released their booking mugs and names to the media.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_20316...ex-manhattan-beach-restroom?source=rss_viewed
:lol:
I love my hometown paper, they list the shit other papers won't.
